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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Seems like an Incomplete Sentence
The passage below is from ‘The Reader,’ a book written by a German author ‘Bernhard Schlink.’
In the underlined part of this text, there is no object of the transitive verb ‘discover,’ ‘liked.’ ? Can you tell me what happened to the object?
and this sentence also shows a bit confusing arrangements.
So ?I gave it a fix in my own way. Can you check it out for me?
Each journey (I went) a little further than the last (journey), (and in) the next vacation in the new place I discovered (something that I discovered) during my last vacation and liked (that)...
Anyway I don’t need or seek much variety. Each journey a little further than the last, the next vacation in the new place I discovered during my last vacation and liked... For a while I thought I should be more daring, and made myself go to Ceylon, Egypt, and Brazil, before I went back to making familiar regions more familiar. I see more in them.
In the underlined part of this text, there is no object of the transitive verb ‘discover,’ ‘liked.’ ? Can you tell me what happened to the object?
and this sentence also shows a bit confusing arrangements.
So ?I gave it a fix in my own way. Can you check it out for me?
Each journey (I went) a little further than the last (journey), (and in) the next vacation in the new place I discovered (something that I discovered) during my last vacation and liked (that)...
Anyway I don’t need or seek much variety. Each journey a little further than the last, the next vacation in the new place I discovered during my last vacation and liked... For a while I thought I should be more daring, and made myself go to Ceylon, Egypt, and Brazil, before I went back to making familiar regions more familiar. I see more in them.
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I agree that it is not a complete sentence; it is more a 'flow-of-thought' type of writing. The original with my insertions: Anyway I don’t need or seek much variety. Each journey [being] a little further than the last, the next vacation in the new place [that] I discovered during my last vacation and liked.
- I agree that it is not a complete sentence; it is more a 'flow-of-thought' type of writing.
- The original with my insertions: Anyway I don’t need or seek much variety.
- Each journey [being] a little further than the last, the next vacation in the new place [that] I discovered during my last vacation and liked.
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I agree that it is not a complete sentence; it is more a 'flow-of-thought' type of writing. The original with my insertions:
Anyway I don’t need or seek much variety. Each journey [being] a little further than the last, the next vacation in the new place [that] I discovered during my last vacation and liked.
Anyway I don’t need or seek much variety. Each journey [being] a little further than the last, the next vacation in the new place [that] I discovered during my last vacation and liked.
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Thanks a lot for answering my post, Mister Micawber.
(Also excuse me for my very late reply. I'm really sorry about that. I think I was out of my senses.)
(Also excuse me for my very late reply. I'm really sorry about that. I think I was out of my senses.)
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